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Blood on the Borders. Back of this declaration was the U.S. belief that Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser himself fears the deep involvement with the Russians, and a pious hope that Nasser will stand by his promise to U.S. Ambassador Henry Byroade not to use his new arms to attack Israel. Nasser himself, however, was still flexing his muscles. Last week he added a military defense alliance with Saudi Arabia to a similar pact just signed with Syria. Three days after Israelis raided a border post held by his Syrian allies (killing three). Nasser's troops attacked...
...would not even have guessed at the romance until three weeks ago. Now the great weight of sedate judgment was making itself felt: the views of the Archbishop of Canterbury, of such powerful leaders of Conservative thought as the Marquess of Salisbury, and of the cautious, conservative and pious segment of nonconformist believers throughout the land. In the wake of this slow gathering of substantial opinion, many a lighter-hearted Briton was forced to forget the sentiment and take stock of the significance of Margaret's apparently firm intention to marry outside her church and outside the stern limitations...
...seems to be leading a popularity contest in government circles today," says the Roman Catholic monthly Catholic Men in an editorial entitled "Good Old God." Many a politico who goes in for godly utterances is "inwardly feeling that such pious expressions and, in fact, God Himself and religion in general, are perfectly harmless . . . We are in favor of expressions of trust in God and don't want to appear cynical, but could it be that an appreciable number . . . are motivated by a naive sentiment that by shouting 'Lord, Lord' often enough, and long enough, we will have...
...today's yardstick, this colonial industry was little more than a group of independent printers. Under rigid governmental censorship, Boston's books were either reprints of classical treatises or pious puritanical sermons. The colonial reader sought moral edification rather than information or casual entertainment...
Forgotten Man. Were the thousands who hit the sawdust trail much different from what they were before they hit? Author William G. McLoughlin Jr., a political science professor at Brown University and Billy Sunday's first full-dress biographer, believes that most of the "converts" were already pious members of the rural middle class, giving themselves a resounding vote of confidence. Sunday's product was relatively painless. Only a hog-jowled anarchist, an evil foreign monarch or a bedizened society woman could object to it. Billy's converts did not have to wrestle with the Lord...